Zahran Alloush, July 21, in his stronghold of Douma. Photo AMER ALMOHIBANY. AFP
The death following a Russian strikes near Damascus, the leader of the Army of Islam group, which was prepared to discuss in peace negotiations, may render stillborn process wanted by the UN.
"No I do not rejoice that Alloush Zahran was killed by the Russians, despite the huge personal dispute and the public who object to it." This is a sworn enemy of the leader of the Army of Islam group, which Friday and responds to the confirmation of his death in an air raid near Damascus. The Syrian writer Yassin Haj Saleh al-Alloush accused of kidnapping in Douma his own wife, missing since late 2013 alongside the human rights lawyer Razan Zaitouneh man and two of their companions. The reaction of the intellectual Democratic opponent exiled in Turkey today illustrates the ambivalent feelings of many and various opponents of warlord Salafist everyone loved to hate.
Powerful leader and founder of the largest training Syrian rebels in the Damascus area, estimated at 45,000 men, Alloush Zahran, 44, who reigned as undisputed master on the eastern Ghouta was a highly controversial figure. Released in early summer 2011 the famous "Islamist flag" of the Sednaya prison along dozens of Salafists and jihadists to an amnesty of Bashar al-Assad, he announced immediately want to topple the regime by force, to the dismay of even peaceful activists of the revolution, who suspect the objective complicity with the regime. He moved to his hometown of Douma, 100,000 inhabitants 10 kilometers northeast of the capital, where his father was already known as Salafist preacher close to Saudi Arabia, became the main support of son Alloush. After participating in the "liberation" of the region in late 2011 regime forces Zahran manages to unify the different armed opposition groups competing under the banner of the Army of Islam, imposing an order from the chaos of other rebel areas in northern Syria.
Besieged, starved and regularly bombed by the army of Bashar al-Assad, the enclave compared by an American researcher to a "giant Gaza Strip" miraculously survives. "Because of corruption and supplies through tunnels controlled Warlord ", say the detractors Alloush. "Through rigorous political and military management," consider the contrary supporters of Douma, long marginalized Sunni suburbs and fiercely opposed to the plan. "We have to Ghouta resources such as water and agriculture, but also many professionals among citizens who were very creative to ensure the basic needs of the population ", assured Zahran Alloush. In an interview published Dec. 15 on the website The Daily Beast, the New York Times, after the meeting in Riyadh different political and military components of the Syrian opposition, including a representative of the Army of Islam, Alloush arises master of pragmatism. "Our priorities remain those of the beginning of the Syrian revolution rid our country of all forms of dictatorship and terrorism. Like all other revolutionary forces, we fight both forces of the Assad takfirist mindset of the Islamic State, "explained he.
Building on its success against the forces of the Islamic state he managed to drive all the regions it controlled near Damascus, the head of the Army of Islam was presented as an example for a Syrian rebellion but not Islamic Jihad. The perfect profile today for Saudis, who always brought her strong political and financial support and generous. "The army is composed exclusively of Alloush Syrians without foreign jihadists or veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan "said Hadeel Oueiss young Syrian journalist Christian of Aleppo, who interviewed by telephone for the Daily Beast." Just a few kilometers from the presidential palace in Damascus, it is a prime target for Russian strikes " wrote the journalist, ten days before the targeted killing of Zahran Alloush.
Logically, the media of the Assad regime celebrated "the death of the great terror of Saud," Hezbollah men handed out pastries in the southern suburbs of Beirut, while Iran was looking forward to the elimination of "terrorist Wahhabi" and that Russia reminded the attacks of the Army of Islam against the inhabitants of Damascus. The happiest of his disappearance were the men of the Islamic State, which welcomed "the end of a traitor to Islam". However, in the camp of the Syrian opposition, the assassination of Zahran Alloush is a blow. "It will affect all the political and diplomatic process initiated in Vienna and Geneva," says Riad Hijab, the former Syrian prime minister, became coordinator of the delegation should participate in negotiations with representatives of the regime. "This is the perspective the only possible political solution in Syria that Russia has killed today," according to Democratic activist Nahed Badawyé.
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